How is a dedicated team different from staff augmentation?

Both models place external engineers inside your processes, but they serve different needs. A dedicated team works full-time and exclusively on your product for an ongoing period. Kultprosvet recruits the team around your requirements. Staff augmentation adds one or more engineers from our core team for a defined scope, workload peak, or limited period.

How is a dedicated team different from software development outsourcing?

With a dedicated team, you retain product ownership and manage the roadmap, priorities, technical decisions, and daily work. Kultprosvet builds, employs, and supports the team. In software development outsourcing, the vendor normally takes responsibility for delivering an agreed scope or product outcome. The right model depends on whether you need ongoing engineering capacity or outsourced delivery.

When does a dedicated team not make financial sense?

A dedicated team may not make financial sense when you have a short project, a fixed end date, or too little work for full-time engineers. It is also not the right model when you need someone to start next week: recruiting the team usually takes 4-6 weeks from role brief to an onboarded engineer hired for your dedicated team, followed by onboarding. For urgent or temporary capacity, staff augmentation is usually a better fit.

How is the cost of a dedicated development team calculated?

You pay each engineer's actual salary plus a fixed Kultprosvet service fee. Salary changes pass through to your invoice 1:1, so a $300 raise increases your monthly cost by $300 rather than by a multiplied vendor rate. Paid leave and sick days remain part of the engineer's salary cost. There is no deposit, and payment starts only when the engineer starts working.

What happens if an engineer leaves the dedicated team?

Kultprosvet starts the replacement process and manages sourcing, vetting, employment, and onboarding. You interview and approve the replacement before anyone joins your team. We also coordinate knowledge transfer where possible, while our HR and retention processes work to reduce avoidable turnover before it reaches that point.

Who owns the code and intellectual property?

You retain ownership of your product, code, repositories, data, and intellectual property. The engineers work inside your environment and use the access permissions you provide. The agreement covers confidentiality and IP assignment, while the team follows the security, repository, and access requirements established by your company.

Can I scale down or end a dedicated team engagement?

Yes. You can add roles as your roadmap expands or reduce the team when your capacity needs change. You approve every new engineer before they join. For team reductions or the end of the engagement, Kultprosvet uses a one-month cancellation notice, so you do not remain committed to unused capacity for several additional months.

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Dedicated development team services

Kultprosvet recruits a team around your product requirements: roles, seniority, and stack. The engineers work full-time on your product, keeping the product knowledge they build. You direct the roadmap and technical work; we handle everything that makes that work possible — hiring, employment, HR, and retention.

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Our process

Build your dedicated team in 5 steps

Typical recruiting cycle: 4-6 weeks from role brief to an onboarded engineer hired for your dedicated team. Legal documents and onboarding preparation run in parallel.

Define the team

Tell us about your product, roadmap, and technical needs. We help define the roles, seniority mix, and team size before recruitment begins.

Meet pre-vetted engineers

Kultprosvet sources and screens candidates, then runs technical interviews with our CTO and tech leads.You get only carefully selected CVs and can focus on picking the best from the good fits.

Approve your team

You interview the finalists and decide who joins your team.

Start working together

Engineers join your tools, workflows, and meetings while you direct priorities and daily work.

Support the team

We organize pre-onboarding and welcome meetings, followed up by the 90-days trial period. During it, we constantly stay in touch with you and the engineer, collect feedback, and end the probation with your final review.

Employment model

Engineers work full-time as part of your product team and are employed by Kultprosvet.

Engineers work full-time as part of your product team and are employed directly by your company.

Who does what

You own the roadmap, priorities, technical decisions, interviews, and daily management. Kultprosvet handles recruitment, CTO-level vetting, employment, payroll, HR, legal compliance, onboarding, retention, and replacements.

You own the roadmap and daily management. Besides, you run sourcing, screening, technical interviews, employment, payroll, HR, legal compliance, onboarding, retention, and replacements.

Time to first engineer

You review pre-vetted candidates only. Sourcing, screening, and technical vetting happen before anyone reaches your calendar.

Your own timeline, limited by your recruiting capacity — and by how many hours your CTO can spend on sourcing and CV screening.

Cost structure

Actual salary + fixed service fee. No client-side benefits package, equity, or stock options are required.

Salary, benefits, bonuses, payroll taxes, recruiting costs, and any equity your company chooses to offer.

When salaries rise

Changes pass through 1:1: a $300 raise adds $300 to your invoice. The fixed service fee stays the same.

A $300 raise adds $300, plus the payroll and benefits costs associated with it.

Start & exit

No deposit or payment before the first engineer starts. You can end or reduce the engagement with one month's notice.

Recruitment and employment costs begin before an engineer starts. Team reductions are subject to employment contracts and local labor requirements.

Retention & knowledge

Engineers stay on our clients' products for 38 months on average. If you request a replacement, Kultprosvet sources, vets, and onboards a new engineer within a month; you approve them.

Product knowledge stays in your company. Retention, backfill, and the hiring cycle for every departure are yours to run.

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Our strengths

You control

Kultprosvet handles

Product direction

Roadmap, priorities, technical decisions, tasks, and final acceptance.

CTO-level vetting

We source against your role requirements and run CTO-level tech interviews.

Team control

You interview and approve every engineer and every replacement.

Employment & administration

We handle employment, payroll, HR, legal, onboarding, and team administration.

Daily work

Your tools, workflows, meetings, feedback, and performance expectations.

Retention & replacement

We support the team, run retention plans, and replace an engineer if they leave.

Compensation visibility

You see every proposed salary change before it takes effect and know exactly how it changes your monthly cost.

Fixed-fee pricing

Salary changes pass through 1:1: a $300 raise adds $300 to your invoice. The fixed service fee stays the same.

IP and access

Your product, code, repositories, data, and access permissions remain under your control.

Security requirements

Engineers work inside your environment and follow your security and IP requirements.

Startup product team
- 2 Full-stack
- QA
Scaling product team
- 4 Full-stack
- QA
- DevOps
- Engineering Lead
AI product team
- Full-stack
- AI/MLOps Engineer
- Forward Deployment Engineer
- QA

Transparent monthly pricing

Your monthly cost follows the same transparent model regardless of team setup. It consists of the engineer’s salary and our fixed monthly fee of around $1000 per employee.

Actual engineer salaries

Fixed monthly service fee

Your monthly cost

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Clear product direction
A product owner, CTO, or engineering lead on your side owns the roadmap, priorities, scope, and technical decisions.
Continuous engineering work
Your roadmap provides enough ongoing work for a full-time team to build and retain product knowledge.
Access to your workflow
The team can join the repositories, documentation, environments, tools, meetings, and processes you already use.
Regular communication
Your product and engineering leaders stay available for decisions, questions, and feedback.

When a dedicated team is not the right model

Immediate start
A dedicated team requires a custom search and onboarding. For an immediate start, staff augmentation from the Kultprosvet core team fits better.
Short roadmap
Dedicated team is a good choice for a long-term project as it pays off overtime. If the development is expected to take less than 6 months - we recommend switching to the staff augmentation model.
Vendor-owned delivery
You direct the roadmap, priorities, and daily work in this model. If you need the vendor to own the scope, timeline, and outcome, our core team delivers the project under Kultprosvet project managers.
No technical owner
A dedicated team needs someone on your side to set tech direction and guide daily work. Without that owner, project delivery by our core team is safer.

One call is enough to confirm whether this model fits your roadmap

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"Their pre-screening is great — the interviews are shorter and we end up with stronger hires."

"With them, I always know what I'm getting — what I hear is what I get, and the pricing is transparent."

"It never felt like outsourcing — it felt like building our team abroad."

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Your Product Changes. We Adapt With It.

Your development needs can change as your product grows. With Kultprosvet, you can move between development by our core team and your dedicated team without looking for a new technology partner. We can also recommend changing the model when we see that another setup would work better for your current needs.

Dedicated Team As Your Product Grows

As your product grows, so does the amount of knowledge, ownership, and ongoing development it requires. At this stage, we can build a dedicated team around it: engineers who stay focused on your product, retain its technical and business context, and take on more responsibility as the roadmap expands. Developers from our core team who already know the product can become part of this team, preserving knowledge and reducing the need for additional onboarding.

Core Team For Project-Based Work

Some development needs are better handled as a project: an urgent release, a new feature, or expertise your team doesn't have, such as a mobile app, design, or project management. Our core team takes ownership of that work and delivers it within a defined scope and timeline, even when you already have a dedicated team. You get the capacity you need without a new vendor or a permanent hire.

Pic Time, BetterCare, Liquidity Capital, Gifted, and Firsties all started with our core team, built their own dedicated teams with Kultprosvet's help, and keep partnering with us.